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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019 Update From the GBD 2019 Study

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and …

Authors

Roth GA; Mensah GA; Johnson CO; Addolorato G; Ammirati E; Baddour LM; Barengo NC; Beaton AZ; Benjamin EJ; Benziger CP

Journal

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 76, No. 25, pp. 2982–3021

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

December 2020

DOI

10.1016/j.jacc.2020.11.010

ISSN

0735-1097